> reporter: now, his very good friend, best friend in the senate and very influential veteran, john mccain, disagrees with him. he spent a lot of time on the senate floor making the point that you need to have reforms, wolf. he said, for example, that this costs the together, these benefits, $56 billion last year. it skyrocketed, like 49% over ten years. the point he was trying to make is he believes it's intellectually dishonest to say there shouldn't be cuts here, what he calls minor cuts, because you need to do this in order to reform the system, to reform the budget in general. he also made the point that if this didn't happen, if people stopped there because of the military retirement issue, the whole thing would unravel and there'd be another threat of a government shutdown. >> there will be major efforts reinstating that cut. >> there were bipartisan statement on the floor of the senate today effectively vowing to do so. they have to find the $1 billion somewhere else in order to make it happen. >> $4 trillion budget, they can find it some place. thanks very much for that. >>> follo